News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-03-17
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NOTES.
President Cleveland will be 80 years
old on Friday, March Is. The other
Presidents who passed their 10Th mile
stone in the White House were j. h.
Polk, Franklin Pierce and us. Grant.
If Garfield had lived a month longer
he would have been so.
Twenty-one American composers
write to April Century in favor of In
ternational Copyright. 1t will be re-
membered that similar group of
"Open Letters" from American au-
thors was Published in the Century for
February, 1886.
Freight Conductor Joseph hurry
of the Ogdensburg and Lake Cham
plain division of the Central Vermont
railway, while switching his train In
the Rouses Point yard Friday was
caught by his left foot between two
rails, and his train backed on him be-
fore he could release himself. three
cars passing over his leg and crushing
it from the foot to the thigh. Medical
aid was summoned, but the shock was
so great that reaction did not set in
and he died at 4 p. m. The deceased
was a brother of William Murray,
conducort of the express train be-
tween Ogdensburgh and St. Adams.
He resided at Champlain, and leaves
wife.
The Supreme Court of Connecticut
has rendered decision in the case Of
the New Haven Journal and Courier
against four members of tyrograph-
ical union, who attempted by boy
colt to injure the business of the
paper. The case came up on appeal
from lower court in which three of
the four had been convicted of con-
spiracy to ruin the business of the
paper. The verdict was sustained by
the Supreme Court, and the opinion
of the lower court was affirmed, that
the boycott is an offence against COM
mon law. This decision, coinciding
with that of the United States District
Court of the southern district of New
York, may be considered to establish
the fact that the boycott is an indict-
able offence, under the common and
statute law. Executive committees
which order boycotts will hereafter do
so at the risk of prosecution and the
penitentiary.
The choir of a certain "orthodox"
church in New England once sang
Mendelssohn's 81 waited for the
Lord" giving it with four voices only,
as they had no chorus. The start
was a good one, and everything was
going with a swing and boom, when
suddenly the bass failed to come in
on a solo passage when he was posi-
lively due. The organist played for
a full bar and then turned and Kissed,
"What's the matter with your" Then
just as everybody was wondering why
the bass was behind time, the singer
suddenly found his voice, and burst
out in really stentorian tones, 81
waited for the Lord" The people
| smiled, and after the piece was fin
ished the organist sought the singer
and said, ''Mr. A., your excuse
was not quite satisfactory"
A contralto singer, having made an
engagement to sing at a concert in
Lowell, arrived in the city of spin
dies in time for an afternoon rehear-
sal, and found upon reaching the hall
that her accompaniment was to be
spoiled by the local band. "Comin'
Through the Rye" was first tried.
From the opening bar it was evident
that something was wrong, very wrong
indeed, though the accomplished lead
er of the band did not discover it un-
til the first verse was nearly finished.
By that time such dreadful sounds
proceeded from a far-of corner of the
stage where clarionet player was
seated that it was plain who the cul-
prit was. The leader raped, and
said, when silence had been secured,
"What's. the matter over there, Mr..
Dodge?" The old fellow looked up in
some surprise, and said, whats the
lady a singin'?" ''Comin' Through the
Rye" responded the conductor. "Oh,
is that so? WAL 1 was a-plaJ in
Five O'clock in the Mornin'."
Young William K. Vanderbilt's new
private yacht, "Alva," is ready fol
use. No monarch of CrGsus ever
possessed such a floating wonder.
When everything which Mr.. Wander
bilt desires is on board it, the craft
fnishings and furnishings will have
cost 81 ,000,000 Mr.. Vanderbilt will
cross the ocean in his yacht as soon
as the weather becomes at all favora-
BILE. He will join the fashionable
yachting excursions in English,
French, Portuguese, Spanish and Ital-
ian waters. He obtained carte blanche
to the ''frst circles" when he and Mrs.
Vanderbilt were on the other side last
year. He is to have houses in both
Paris and London in which to enter
tain. In short, it is understood that
hereafter he will spend the best part
of his time in Europe. Mrs. Wander
bilt is very ambitious for social dis
tinction, and Mr. Vanderbilt is scarce
ly less so. He showed his predilec-
ton for fashionable ways by his fancy
dress ball, the like of which New
York had never before seen.
From "Recollections of Secretary Stan.
ton" by clerk of the War Department
in the March Century, we quote as fol
lows: I'm the days of which L write, Mr.
Lincoln was a particularly woe-begone
| figure. 1t was one of those periods oil
the war when the whole situation, nail.
itary, financial, and political, was one Of
almost unrelived blackness. He spent
hours at time, shut up with Mr.. Stan.
ton, all business and speech mainly being
put aside, so far as Outsiders could Judge
while these lonely communions lasted
Was it not the gloomy autumn days OF
1864. that the fearful Secretary had In
mind, when he spoke those pathetic words
as he took the hand of the iust-expired
President: 'Ah' dear friend! there is none
now to do me justice; none to tell the
| world of the anxious hours we have spent
together! Even before the autumn had
| well set in, Mr.. Lincoln, had begun to
enwrap himself in the familiar plaid shawl
and, with his hat pulled well down in
front, he would scurry along the halls of
the War Department, and into the re-
| tiring-room of the Secretary, noticing
and speaking to nobody. AT times he
would sit in the retiring-room with the
door open between that and the apart
ment in which the Secretary. walking
about as was his wont, was transacting
business with the departmental officers
and clerks. or visitors. DrOlOnUinU hiS